Some time ago I was in Canada. You might know Henry Montgantler, a medical
doctor. He was practicing abortion. He was arrested several times in Montreal.
He was put on trial and he was imprisoned. So I was in Ottawa and I was
a guest of the Canadian Humanist Association. Somebody asked me whether
I believed in right to life. I said "Yes, I do believe in right to
life." Then he said, "If you believe in right to life how can
you support Henry Montgantler and abortion?" I said, "For me
life is between birth and death. For you life is before birth and after
death."

"I believe in right to life here and now as an entity of human
beings. You believe in right to life before birth and after death."
Then he said "What, what do you mean?"

"You believe in right to life of the foetus, which has not come
out into the world, which is still connected to the womb of the mother.
If that foetus is removed by abortion from the womb of the mother it has
no separate entity, it cannot live, it cannot function.

"But a fellow human being, he is a living human being before you,
he is functioning as a fellow human being and you don't mind to kill him.

"So those who believe in right to life they should not allow their
children to be soldiers. So you make a war. But I believe in right to life
not only the right to life of the foetus, but to the right to life of the
living fellow human being. So I shall not kill a fellow human being. You
take a vote and then I say how many soldiers from your families who believe
in right to life are there? Recall them. Don't put your children in police
force. Don't put your children in the Army. Don't send your children. First
you do that, then you advocate right to life. Till then advocacy of right
to life against abortion is hypocrisy."